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• Angela Merkel races ahead in polls with six weeks to go

  12-08-2017 23:54 via theguardian.com
  Challenge from left’s new saviour Martin Schulz fades among voters content with economic successNot long ago, he was seen as a bearer of hope, not just for his own party, Germany’s Social Democrats, but for the whole of the embattled European left. He was nicknamed “Sankt Martin”, the man who had the potential to topple Angela Merkel from her throne after almost 12 years and bring a wave of fresh ideas that would reinvigorate a political landscape turned staid by her long
  
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• Trump's fired chief of staff Reince Preibus 'to be interviewed by Robert Mueller' as part of Russia investigation

  12-08-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  The man overseeing the probe into Donald Trump’s ties with Russia, Robert Mueller, intends to interview Reince Priebus, the recently deposed White House’s chief of staff, it has been reported.The special counsel plans to interview several current and former Trump administration officials as part of his ongoing investigation, according to the New York Times.Mr Mueller is asking for records including details of specific meetings with administration and campaign officials, and any relat
  
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• World Championships 2017: Mo Farah misses out on fifth consecutive distance double

  12-08-2017 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Britain's Mo Farah misses out on a fifth consecutive major distance double as he finishes second in the 5,000m at the World Championships.
  
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• Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 used by UK to boost weapon sales

  12-08-2017 23:42 via theguardian.com
  Thatcher government saw war on Saddam as an ‘unparalleled opportunity’ to sell arms, declassified secret memos revealThe British government saw Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait as an “unparalleled opportunity” to sell arms to Gulf states, according to recently declassified secret documents.The memos, released by the National Archives, reveal how in the build-up to the 1990 Gulf war ministers and civil servants scrambled to ensure Britain’s arms manufacturers could ta
  
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• Amazon Refunding Customers For Fake Solar Eclipse Glasses

  12-08-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Amazon is refunding customers for fake eclipse glasses. Here's a list of reliable manufacturers.
  
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• Toronto shoplifter gets job after policeman bought him interview shirt

  12-08-2017 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  A policeman who bought a youth the interview outfit he tried to steal says he starts work on Monday.
  
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• Man Accused of Beating Mom, Sister and Friend to Death With Hammer

  12-08-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  He was found sleeping in his car two miles from the house
  
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• World Athletics Championships 2017: Great Britain win stunning relay gold as Bolt pulls up

  12-08-2017 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch Great Britain claim a stunning 4x100m relay gold, as Jamaica's Usain Bolt pulls up injured in his final race at the World Athletics Championships.
  
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• Top UK ministers: Brexit transition cannot be back door to staying in EU

  12-08-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs a transition period to soften its exit from the European Union, but it cannot be used to stop Brexit, two senior British ministers said on Saturday. "We believe a time-limited interim period will be important to further our national interest and give business greater certainty - but it cannot be indefinite; it cannot be a back door to staying in the EU," finance minister Philip Hammond and trade minister Liam Fox wrote in a joint article for the Sunday Telegraph
  
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• President Trump Blames 'Many Sides' for Violence in Charlottesville

  12-08-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  "We agreed that the hate and the division must stop"
  
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• Egypt punishes train disaster 'selfie medics'

  12-08-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Egypt's health ministry has punished six medics who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a remote part of the country, it said Saturday, following an online uproar.Two trains collided Friday near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing 41 people in one of the deadliest such accidents in the North African country.Dubbed the "Selfie Medics" by Twitter users, they faced calls for punishment on social media.
  
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• Car drives into crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia – video

  12-08-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  WARNING: Graphic video – some viewers may find this footage distressing.Video footage appears to show the moment a car runs into a crowd of people in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday. Authorities attended the scene and at least one person received medical treatment immediately after the incident, according to reportsCharlottesville: car runs into crowd amid violence at planned far-right protest
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• Russia probe counsel wants to interview senior White House officials: NYT

  12-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  The special counsel investigating whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign wants to speak with current and former senior White House officials, the New York Times reported on Saturday.Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the investigation, is in talks with the White House about potential interviews, including with former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the newspaper said, citing three unnamed source
  
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• Trump signs bill to fund veterans medical care program

  12-08-2017 22:31
  Program allows veterans to receive private medical care at government expense.
  
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• One Dead, Several Injured After Car Plows Into Pedestrians at White Nationalist Rally: 'I Am Heartbroken'

  12-08-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  No arrest have been made, according to reports.
  
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• Trump team asks Justices to scuttle immigration cases

  12-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  The Trump Administration, insisting that the presidential order limiting entry to the U.S. of foreign nationals from Mideast nations “is not a so-called ‘Muslim ban,’” has urged the Supreme Court to throw out without a decision two major cases pursued by challengers to the restrictions.
  
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• Charlottesville: Trump under fire after failing to denounce white supremacists

  12-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump speaks about violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.Donald Trump has faced a hail of criticism after failing to explicitly condemn violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car running into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing at least one person.The president said he condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence from all sources and all sides”.
  
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• Trump on Charlottesville violence: 'To me, it's very, very sad'

  12-08-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  President Trump on Saturday strongly condemned the turbulence in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists clashed violently with counterprotesters, leaving at least one person dead.
  
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• Going undercover in North Korea

  12-08-2017 21:59 via cnn.com
  Suki Kim, a journalist and author who went undercover in North Korea as a missionary and teacher shares her insights with CNN's Lynda Kinkade.
  
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• NAACP sues Indiana, alleges law targets black, Latino voters

  12-08-2017 21:58
  The group alleges the law targets black and Latino voters.
  
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• Car rams into crowd as US far-right rally erupts in violence

  12-08-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Charlottesville (United States) (AFP) - A picturesque Virginia city erupted in violence Saturday as white nationalist demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed, with a car plowing into a group of people and President Donald Trump urging Americans to "condemn all that hate stands for."
  
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• Virginia city rocked by white nationalist protests; 1 arrest

  12-08-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Virginia city rocked by white nationalist protests; 1 arrest.
  
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• Driver Plows Through Protesters in Charlottesville

  12-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  One person was fatally injured in the attack, 19 others injured.
  
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• North Korea 'saddest place in the world'

  12-08-2017 21:46 via cnn.com
  North Koreans are raised to be soldiers and "have no ounce of freedom," a journalist who lived undercover in the reclusive nation told CNN.
  
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• N Korea 'the saddest place in the world'

  12-08-2017 21:46 via cnn.com
  North Koreans are raised to be soldiers and "have no ounce of freedom," a journalist who lived undercover in the reclusive nation told CNN.
  
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• Greek Orthodox church aims to block property sale in court

  12-08-2017 21:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Greek Orthodox patriarch in the Holy Land says his church will appeal an Israeli court decision that approved the sale of prime church property to companies representing Jews seeking to expand their presence in Jerusalem's Old City.
  
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• Venezuela crisis: Latin Americans condemn Trump over 'military response'

  12-08-2017 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Argentina says diplomacy is the only solution after Trump says he is considering military action.
  
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• Danish sub inventor held over missing journalist

  12-08-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  A Danish judge remanded into temporary custody Saturday a Danish inventor accused of manslaughter over a missing Swedish journalist, who was on board a submarine he built which sank."My client denies the allegations," Betina Engmark, lawyer for 46-year-old inventor Peter Madsen told AFP, adding that he was "hurt" to be suspected of involvement in her death.Press reports named the Swedish journalist as Kim Wall, 30, who was writing a feature story about the inventor.
  
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• Venezuela rejects Trump's talk of potential 'military option' to resolve political crisis

  12-08-2017 21:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Venezuela’s government has rejected President Donald Trump’s talk of a potential “military option” to resolve the country’s political crisis.
  
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• Analysis: Trump 'military' talk on Venezuela unnerves LatAm

  12-08-2017 21:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  President Donald Trump's talk of a "military option" in Venezuela risks alienating Latin American nations that overcame their reluctance to work with the Republican leader and had adopted a common, confrontational approach aimed at isolating President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government.
  
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• Motorcycle suicide bomber kills 15 people in Pakistan

  12-08-2017 21:39 via theguardian.com
  Twenty-five people wounded after 25kg bomb detonates in Quetta amid celebrations for forthcoming independence day A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has targeted a military truck with a bomb killing eight soldiers and seven civilians in the south-western city of Quetta, Pakistani officials have said.Kabeer Khan, an explosives expert who examined the site, said after collecting forensic evidence that it was a suicide attack and that the attacker had been carrying 25kg of “incendiary explosive
  
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• Submarine owner detained over journalist's disappearance

  12-08-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court ordered the owner of an amateur-built submarine Saturday held in pre-trial detention for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship before it sank.
  
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• Videos show car plowing into counterprotesters

  12-08-2017 21:26 via cnn.com
  Videos posted to social media show a car crash into protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia and then drive away.
  
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• Videos show car crash into counterprotesters

  12-08-2017 21:26 via cnn.com
  Videos posted to social media show a car crash into protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia and then drive away.
  
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• Vehicle plows into crowd in Virginia city, several hurt: witnesses

  12-08-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  The accident involved three vehicles, and there were multiple injuries, Charlottesville city spokeswoman Miriam Dickler said in a text message.Charlottesville police said in a statement on Facebook that they and Virginia State Police were at the scene of the incident in the city's downtown.
  
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• Kindhearted Firefighter Adopts Dog He Helped Save From Fire: 'It's Great For Titus'

  12-08-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  The puppy is recovering well.
  
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• Danish police to search submarine after inventor charged over missing journalist

  12-08-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  By Jacob Gronholt-PedersenCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said on Saturday they were preparing to search a sunken submarine owned by Danish inventor Peter Madsen who has been charged with the inadvertent manslaughter of a journalist.The police said that Madsen, 46, was being held in custody for 24 days, accused of killing Swedish woman Kim Wall, 30, who they said had been on his submarine before it sank on Friday.Madsen was rescued on Friday morning in a navy operation and taken ashore afte
  
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• Virginia white supremacist rally: One dead as car hits crowd of anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville

  12-08-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  At least one person has died and several others have been injured after a car hit a crowd of anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, as far-right groups gathered for a rally in the town.
  
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• Venezuela state oil company PDVSA reports sharp drop in revenues

  12-08-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA revealed on Saturday that its revenues have dropped sharply, spelling bad news for a crisis-torn country heavily reliant on its exports of crude oil.PDVSA registered $48 billion in income for last year, compared to $72 billion in 2015.The country's oil ministry has projected that Venezuelan crude would fetch $43.72 a barrel in 2017, but oil prices remain depressed globally.
  
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• Charlottesville: one dead after car rams counter-protesters at far-right gathering

  12-08-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Rescue workers assist people who were injured when a car drove through a group of people in Charlottesville.It came at the end of a day marked by violent clashes between far-right nationalists and people who had come to protest their occupation of a downtown park containing a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee.Donald Trump condemned the “violence on many sides”, but faced criticism for failing to directly denounce the far-right demonstrators.
  
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• Flying rocks, teargas and a dead child: the grisly aftermath of the Kenya election

  12-08-2017 20:50 via theguardian.com
  Human rights groups say at least 24 people have been killed in violence following the presidential vote, which opposition supporters claim was rigged
  Mid-afternoon, and black smoke trails above the grey tenements. Broken glass, burned tyres, rubble and makeshift barricades block roads. Charred spars mark where a stall once stood, incinerated in confused clashes overnight. Police, armed with batons and assault rifles, cluster around their trucks. Angry men shout slogans and wave fists.The morning
  
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• Nigeria's Buhari 'feels ready to go home', awaiting doctor's OK

  12-08-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home from medical leave in Britain, and is awaiting his doctor's permission, a presidency statement said on Saturday.Buhari's extended absence for an undisclosed ailment, his second this year, left many in Nigeria questioning whether he was well enough to run the country.The president has spent more time since the beginning of 2017 in Britain than in Nigeria.
  
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• Police in Charlottesville, Virginia, tell protesters to disperse

  12-08-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Authorities called an end to a white nationalist rally and counterprotest on Aug. 12 after violent clashes.
  
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• Rescue ship suspends work after 'threats by Libyan coastguard'

  12-08-2017 20:37 via theguardian.com
  Doctors Without Borders told by Italian authorities that increasing aggression by Libyan ships poses a security riskDoctors Without Borders has said that it is temporarily suspending the activity of its rescue ship owing to alleged threats from Libya. The Libyan coastguard has increasingly become more aggressive in patrolling the waters off its coasts where human traffickers launch boats crowded with migrants desperate to reach Europe.The humanitarian group said the rescue coordination centre op
  
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• Trump: We all must 'condemn all that hate stands for'

  12-08-2017 20:33 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump urged unity and condemned hate in response to violent white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, that have played out on national television Saturday.
  
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• Donald Trump condemns violence at far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, saying 'we all must be united'

  12-08-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has condemned violence that broke out as far-right, white nationalists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virgina.City, county and state authorities declared a state of emergency as clashes broke out between those demonstrating against plans to remove a statue honouring Confederate general Robert E Lee from a Charlottesville park and counter-protesters.Mr Trump responded to the outbreak of violence ahead of the "Unite The Right" rally through Twitter, saying "we ALL must be united and
  
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• US fighter pilot ejects on emergency landing at Bahrain

  12-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  A US military aircraft made an emergency landing at Bahrain International Airport on Saturday and its pilot ejected on the runway after an engine malfunction, a navy spokesman said.The F/A 18E fighter "experienced an engine malfunction and attempted to divert to Sheik(h) Isa Air Base, Bahrain", said Commander William Urban of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain.
  
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• Trump's Venezuela comments pose challenges for Pence

  12-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a role Mike Pence has come to know well.
  
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• MSF suspends use of largest migrant rescue boat

  12-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid group said Saturday it was halting operations of its largest rescue ship for migrants in the Mediterranean after Libya barred foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast."With NGOs more and more restricted in the Med & the #EU determined to trap people in #Libya, we've put the #Prudence on standby," MSF said on Twitter.Libya's navy this week ordered foreign vessels to stay out of a coastal "search and rescue zone" for migrants headed for Europe
  
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• Violent clashes erupt at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Va.

  12-08-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police in riot gear ordered people to disperse after violent clashes between white nationalists and counter protesters on Saturday.
  
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